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UnderRail is a turn-based isometric RPG that focus on exploration and combat, with mechanics similar to the original Fallout. The game is set in a post-apocalyptic near future when most of Earth’s surface has become uninhabitable and people now live in a large system of metro states below the surface. The player’s character is part … Continue reading “UnderRail”
Year: 2013
Platforms: Windows
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Turn-based strategy
Following the events depicted in The Savage Empire, the Avatar and his friend Dr. Spector receive a book that contains the knowledge of time traveling. They are taken to the year 1893, witnessing Percival Lowell prepare a space cannon not unlike the one described in Jules Verne’s works, with the intention of sending humans to … Continue reading “Ultima: Worlds of Adventure 2 – Martian Dreams”
Year: 1991
Platforms: DOS, Macintosh, Windows
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Turn-based strategy
Ultima Underworld II: Labyrinth of Worlds takes place one year after the events of Ultima VII: The Black Gate. To celebrate the defeat of the Guardian, Lord British invites the Avatar and his companions to his castle. However, in the night of the feast the Guardian attacks again, encasing the castle in a giant gem … Continue reading “Ultima Underworld II: Labyrinth of Worlds”
Year: 1993
Platforms: DOS, FM Towns, PC-98, Windows
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Dungeon crawler
After having brought peace to Britannia during his previous journey there, the Avatar returns to our world. However, he is haunted by ghostly dreams that warn him of great danger in Britannia. The Avatar decides to travel there once again. Upon his arrival, he witnesses the kidnapping of Baron Almric’s daughter. Found guilty of the … Continue reading “Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss”
Year: 1992
Platforms: DOS, FM Towns, PC-98, PlayStation, Windows, Windows Mobile
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Dungeon crawler
For the last time, the Avatar is being summoned to free Britannia from Guardian’s curse. The eight Shrines of Virtues, the pride of Britannia, have been all desecrated by this evil and mysterious creature. The glyphs which protected them have been taken, and put into huge columns the Guardian built in Britannia, with their entrances … Continue reading “Ultima IX: Ascension”
Year: 1999
Platforms: Windows
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: RPG elements
Ultima VIII: Pagan begins where Ultima VII: Part Two – Serpent Isle ended. The Guardian banishes the Avatar to the land of Pagan, a world under his control. Stranded in this unknown land, without his companions to help him, the Avatar’s goal is to find a way back to Britannia. He has to confront four … Continue reading “Ultima VIII: Pagan”
Year: 1994
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Action RPG
Ultima VII: Forge of Virtue is an add-on disk to Ultima VII: The Black Gate that adds new areas and quests to the game. Once the disk is installed and a previous game is loaded (or a new one begun), an earthquake shakes Britannia, signalling the rising of the Isle of Fire from the oceans. … Continue reading “Ultima VII: Forge of Virtue”
Year: 1992
Platforms: DOS
Genre: DLC / add-on, Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Puzzle elements, Real-time strategy
The Avatar sees a strange message on his computer screen. An unknown being who calls himself the Guardian claims that Britannia has entered a true age of enlightenment, and soon everyone, including the Avatar himself, shall bow before the new lord. At this moment, a moongate materializes, and the Avatar steps through it into Britannia. … Continue reading “Ultima VII: The Black Gate”
Year: 1992
Platforms: DOS
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Puzzle elements, Real-time strategy
The Silver Seed is an add-on disk for Ultima VII: Part Two – Serpent Isle. It adds a new scenario with five quests, in which the player has to go back in time to find the silver seed which would heal the lands. In order to fit in with the original story line, these quests … Continue reading “Ultima VII: Part Two – The Silver Seed”
Year: 1993
Platforms: DOS
Genre: DLC / add-on
Theme: Puzzle elements, Real-time strategy
The events of the game take place eighteen months after those described in Ultima VII: The Black Gate. Batlin, the leader of the Fellowship has disappeared, as well as Iolo’s wife Gwenno. A map is found that points to the Serpent Isle where the Guardian is still planning to destroy Britannia. Lord British sends the … Continue reading “Ultima VII: Part Two – Serpent Isle”
Year: 1993
Platforms: DOS
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Puzzle elements, Real-time strategy